[SDL] ALSA/OSS linux audio driver priorities

Torsten Giebl wizard at syntheticsw.com
Tue Aug 7 13:20:00 PDT 2007


Hello !


>> I believe the attached patch should make ALSA preferred over OSS.
>
> The reason it wasn't preferred in the past is that there were bugs
> with ALSA hanging on open when (real) OSS was being used, but some
> OSS drivers would allow multiple opens.
>
> There were also audio quality and latency problems with ALSA that
> weren't present in the OSS emulation.


This is still true for my with experience.
Not for good cards with emu10k1 chipset for
example, but with cheap noname ones.


CU




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